A doctor assists a patient inside the Doctor Voino-Yasenetsky Saint Luka train, which serves as a free consultative and diagnostic medical centre, at a railway station of Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk May 26, 2014. The train transports well-qualified medical personnel and equipment to assist about 200 patients a day and has been travelling annually from the main regional centre Krasnoyarsk to distant settlements of Krasnoyarsk and Khakassia Regions, where hospitals and clinics are scarce, for the last seven years. The train also has a carriage which operates as a mobile Orthodox church. The train was named after an outstanding Russian surgeon, an Orthodox bishop and GULAG prisoner Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky. Picture taken May 26, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH TRANSPORT RELIGION)

People stand in line to enter the Doctor Voino-Yasenecky Saint Luka train, which serves as a free consultative and diagnostic medical centre, at a railway station of Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk May 26, 2014. The train transports well-qualified medical personnel and equipment to assist about 200 patients a day and has been travelling annually from the main regional centre of Krasnoyarsk to distant settlements of Krasnoyarsk and Khakassia Regions, where hospitals and clinics are scarce, for the last seven years. The train has also a carriage which operates as a mobile Orthodox church. The train was named after an outstanding Russian surgeon, an Orthodox bishop and a GULAG prisoner Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky. Picture taken on May 26, 2014.
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A doctor assists a patient inside the Doctor Voino-Yasenetsky Saint Luka train, which serves as a free consultative and diagnostic medical centre, at a railway station of Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk May 26, 2014. The train transports well-qualified medical personnel and equipment to assist about 200 patients a day and has been travelling annually from the main regional centre Krasnoyarsk to distant settlements of Krasnoyarsk and Khakassia Regions, where hospitals and clinics are scarce, for the last seven years. The train also has a carriage which operates as a mobile Orthodox church. The train was named after an outstanding Russian surgeon, an Orthodox bishop and GULAG prisoner Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky. Picture taken May 26, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH TRANSPORT RELIGION)

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A doctor assists a patient inside the Doctor Voino-Yasenetsky Saint Luka train, which serves as a free consultative and diagnostic medical centre, at a railway station of Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk May 26, 2014. The train transports well-qualified medical personnel and equipment to assist about 200 patients a day and has been travelling annually from the main regional centre Krasnoyarsk to distant settlements of Krasnoyarsk and Khakassia Regions, where hospitals and clinics are scarce, for the last seven years. The train also has a carriage which operates as a mobile Orthodox church. The train was named after an outstanding Russian surgeon, an Orthodox bishop and GULAG prisoner Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky. Picture taken May 26, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH TRANSPORT RELIGION)

Racism and stereotyping have been the major contributing factors that led to the untimely death in 2008 of Brian Sinclair, an aboriginal man, at the emergency room at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre. In fact, the failure of the medical staff to attend to the homeless, double-amputee was tantamount to homicide, the lawyer for the Sinclair family said during closing submissions at an inquest in Winnipeg.

Although the Manitoba Nurses' Union reminded the inquest judge Sinclair's death was ruled natural, Vilko Zbogar, Sinclair's family's lawyer, said the human factors contributed to the man's death. "It was a human failing. It was not just something with a mechanical system."

"If you don't give food to a person they will die," Winnipeg Free Press quoted Zbogar telling provincial court Judge Tim Preston. "If you don't give medical treatment to a person who is sick they will die."

"The inquest should make a verdict this death was a homicide."

People stand in line to enter the Doctor Voino-Yasenecky Saint Luka train, which serves as a free consultative and diagnostic medical centre, at a railway station of Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk May 26, 2014. The train transports well-qualified medical personnel and equipment to assist about 200 patients a day and has been travelling annually from the main regional centre of Krasnoyarsk to distant settlements of Krasnoyarsk and Khakassia Regions, where hospitals and clinics are scarce, for the last seven years. The train has also a carriage which operates as a mobile Orthodox church. The train was named after an outstanding Russian surgeon, an Orthodox bishop and a GULAG prisoner Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky. Picture taken may 26, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH TRANSPORT RELIGION)

A 45-year-old double amputee, Sinclair died in September 2008 after waiting 34 long hours in the Health Sciences Centre emergency department. He had to have his catheter changed, but unfortunately died without receiving treatment from an altogether easily treatable bladder infection.

A number of staff who saw Sinclair told the inquest they thought he was intoxicated and just "sleeping it off." Others thought he was homeless and just sought shelter at the hospital.

"It caused medical staff, who had the responsibility to intervene and provide Mr. Sinclair with the care he needed, not to do so."

Arlene Wilgosh of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority believed racism and stereotyping may have been factors, but there could be more complex issues than that.

"Mr. Sinclair should not have died in our emergency department," CTV News quoted Wilgosh.

A doctor assists a patient inside the Doctor Voino-Yasenetsky Saint Luka train, which serves as a free consultative and diagnostic medical centre, at a railway station of Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk May 26, 2014. The train transports well-qualified medical personnel and equipment to assist about 200 patients a day and has been travelling annually from the main regional centre Krasnoyarsk to distant settlements of Krasnoyarsk and Khakassia Regions, where hospitals and clinics are scarce, for the last seven years. The train also has a carriage which operates as a mobile Orthodox church. The train was named after an outstanding Russian surgeon, an Orthodox bishop and GULAG prisoner Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky. Picture taken May 26, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH TRANSPORT RELIGION)

All throughout the entire 34-hour waiting time, Sinclair was seen just sitting in his wheelchair until he was discovered dead.

"We're talking about negative stereotyping - stereotyping that led to numerous assumptions being made, all of which significantly contributed to Mr. Sinclair's death," Tratchenberg said.

The inquest judge is given six months to release a report with conclusions and recommendations.